Fran's guys have an album coming out this month, and at this rate they'll have a video for every song within a month or two. Following up on the 10' tall guitar solos of "Something Anything" and the 40-hour elevator ride of "J Smith," Mr. Healy finds himself, according to the band's YouTube page, "Caught in a lonely freaked out acid hinterland created by the video director Nick Hooker." He does look caught and lonely (yes I noticed the track title) in the vid's volcanic astral plane, stuck in the sort of self-pitying contemplative mood that drives me to drink and smoke too much, but drives Travis to churn out that good ol' rafter raising, introspective-yet-soaring rock. It's like if Bono was wondering why it always rains on him, only more believable than that would be these days.
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No, not original, but yes, better than most of the field mining similar terrain. Ode To J. Smith is due out 9/29 on the band's Red Telephone Box label. Looking forward to it.
